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Not that the New York Knicks should mind quite yet, but on one court Jeremy Lin has been torching his own team as badly as regular basketball opponents. That court is Twitter. According to Social Guide, which tracks social buzz around TV, the #Linsanity hashtag has rocketed past #Knicks since the young guard's amazing run started.

Perhaps that is nothing but good news for a franchise that had little going for it after making blockbuster acquisitions last season. Carmelo Anthony was expected to descend from the mountains of Colorado and restore greatness back to the proud franchise. But the savior, it now appears, is an un-drafted free agent from Harvard who was waived last year by his hometown team Golden State. Anthony is currently out with an injury. Lin has become a starter -- at a different position -- and the Knicks are on a seven-game winning streak.

It is a good story. (I prefer the one where the Denver Nuggets got better after Anthony was traded away, but I digress.) And #Linsanity has taken Twitter by storm.

According to Social Guide, the Knicks had an active audience on Twitter of about 25,000 on Feb. 4, when Lin & Co. beat the New Jersey Nets. But by the time the team took down the Los Angeles Lakers on Feb. 10 in front of an ESPN audience, the Tweep audience had reached nearly 300,000.

#Linsanity, during that Lakers game, was tweeted 47,083 times, while #Knicks pulled 35,040. Remember, that was six days after Lin's first start.

Three days later, when Lin hit a buzzer-beater to rebuff the Raptors, #Linsanity went to 55,068 tweets vs. 16,828 for #Knicks.

So how could this ever be a bad thing? Let's think about Carmelo again. Lin is a point guard who can score, but who can also play the more conventional role of set-up man. Melo played with one of the best scoring-dishing point guards of his generation, Chauncey Billups, and so we already know that combination can work. But Lin's notoriety is like nothing Anthony has seen before. At Syracuse, he was nearly the entire team for one championship season. In Denver, neither Billups nor anyone else stole his spotlight as the unquestionable superstar. Even in New York, until this month, Anthony was clearly the alpha Knick while Amare Stoudemire offered muscle.

#Linsanity changes that in a way that could prove problematic. Anthony is being his normal good guy self, but he can't wait forever to return to his proper place. So when WFAN's Mike Francesa asked him if he's excited to get back and play with Lin, he very tellingly responded, "I am overly excited about it. I can’t wait to get back out there on the court."

On the other hand, Anthony has 1.7 million followers on Twitter. Lin, as of today, is just gaining on 400,000. Perhaps that more than 1.3 million reasons it will all work out fine.